In 1979, the maximum Federal Pell Grant award covered about three-fourths of the total cost of attending a four-year college. Today, the maximum award covers only about one third of the cost for tuition, fees, room and board. Learn More »

85 percent of children whose parents had less than a high school education and 60 percent of children whose parents had a high school degree but no college lived in poverty, in comparison to 25 percent of children whose parents had some college. Learn More »

The best-case scenario given current degree attainment rates: by 2020, the U.S. will still fall short of closing the gap in the number of skilled workers between the U.S. and the other best-educated countries in the world by at least one million skilled wLearn More »

By 2018 we will need an additional 22 million new college graduates to fill the demand of the labor market. At current degree attainment rates, we will fall short of that number by at least three million postsecondary degrees and at least 4.7 million postLearn More »

If lower-educated adults were to complete an Associate degree and benefit from the typical average wage gain associated with it, the U.S. would experience an increase in personal income of $848 billion.Learn More »